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A small contingent of the Alpine Track and Field team traveled to Lubbock for the twoday Texas Tech Under Armour Indoor High School Classic this past weekend. The indoor track scene was a new experience for the athletes and coaches. With no divisions and the best track and field clubs from all over the state in attendance, the competition was tough. The athletes competed in running events on the 200m banked track in Texas Tech’s Sports Performance Center with standing room only crowd.

The old saying that defense wins championships is how the Alpine Bucks have approached this season, and came together defensively for the Alpine Bucks, last Friday night. Players who have spent the majority of the season sitting out with injuries, were back on the court and Alpine was nearly full strength for the first time since early December.

In a recent newspaper article Barry Scobee was described as a “pulp fiction writer.” While by his own admission he wrote stories for a variety of magazines, some of the “pulp” variety, Scobee was first, and foremost, a newspaperman. To describe him as a “pulp fiction writer” does him a disservice. Were it not for Scobee, there might not be a Fort Davis National Historic Site, and much of the history of the community may have been lost. He writes, “I make no claim to being an academician or creative writer, nor a bornin- the-fabric storyteller, I am a reporter.” By the same measure, he never claimed to be a great historian, but we own much of what we do know of our history to him.

Big Bend Regional Hospital District appointed Reagan Reed, the superintendent of Terlingua Common School District, to its Board of Directors on Jan. 19. Mr. Reed filled the unexpired term for Single Member District 3, representing the Terlingua area. The seat was previously held by Greg Henington who resigned from the hospital district board upon taking office as Brewster County Judge at the first of the year.

The Texas Mountain Trail Region-TMTR, is part of the Texas Historical Commission’s -THC award-winning Texas Heritage Trails Program -THTP heritage tourism initiative. This economic development initiative encourages communities, heritage regions, and the state to partner and promote Texas’ historic and cultural resources. These successful local preservation efforts, combined with statewide marketing of heritage regions as tourism destinations, increase visitation to cultural and historic sites and bring more dollars to Texas communities. This in turn supports the THC’s mission to protect and preserve the state’s historic and prehistoric resources for the use, education, economic benefit, and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Beginning Feb. 1 and continuing through May 31, the National Park Service, NPS will again temporarily close select areas in the Chisos Mountains to protect nesting falcons.

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WEEK Alpine Humane Society Pet of the Week is Billy. Billy loves going for walks, is great on a leash, and takes his job of identifying and cataloguing new scents very seriously.